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What's Up at the Custom House - January 28, 2018
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New London Maritime Society
- telling the stories of New London's waterfront & preserving four historic maritime sites.
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Sunday, January28
M
arion Krepcio Remembers Ellery Thompson
today Sunday, January 28, 2PM.
Marion Krepcio recalls local legend: fisherman/author/artist Ellery Thompson (1899-1986).
You know Ellery -- he's one of our favorite local maritime characters. Learn more about him at this entertaining talk by an old friend.
space available - you may show up at the door. $16, $12 NLMS members, $8 youth (to age 18 years)
Stay on at the Custom House after Marion Krepcio's talk for wine & nibbles and the
Custom Book Group's discussion of Ellery Thompson's autobiography DRAGGERMAN'S HAUL at 3 PM.
There is no charge to attend the Book Group meeting.
'Draggerman's Haul' is available in the MUSEUM SHOP for $16 for Book Club attendees (a $2 discount).
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Attention: High school juniors & seniors
NLMS 2018 Reid MacCluggage
Black Maritime History Scholarship
entries are due
February 28
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Sunday, February 18
Chandler Smith - Discovering Venture & the Voyage of the
Sloop Venture 2018-2019
Sunday, February 18 at 2 PM
Historian
Chandler Saint presents his latest research on Venture Smith and
brings us up-to-date on his plans to visit New London this summer to launch the Voyage of the Sloop Venture 2018-2019, an effort to memorialize the 400th anniversary (in 2019) of the first African slave landing.
$16, $12 NLMS members, $8 youth
Space is limited and Chandler Saint is a popular speaker.
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Sunday, March 11
Patrick Lynch talk & book signing
Connecticut Coast & Long Island Sound: 20,000 Years of Change on Connecticut's Shores
Sunday, March 11 at 2 PM
Connecticut has some of New England's most beautiful coastal environments, but our shores and marine environments also face increasing challenges from urbanization, pollution, and climate change. This talk will look at the geology and biology of our coast, and try to place our current challenges within the context of 20,000 years of major changes in our shoreline since it was formed at the end of the Ice Age.
Patrick Lynch, illustrator, photographer, and author of
A Field Guide to Long Island Sound, Yale University Press,2017, will speak about LIS and sign copies of his new LIS field guide at the Custom House Maritime Museum on Sunday, March 11, 2 p.m.
$12, $10 NLMS members, $8 youth ages 10 to 18
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Please support New London Maritime Society
A small gem in downtown New London, NLMS's Custom House is
New London's local maritime history museum & preservation organization.
You are the heroes who keep the lights on & the museum warm as we preserve & share our authentic maritime heritage.
We've been thinking a lot about lifeboats lately -- we now have a lifeboat rescue painting, above and a lifeboat patent model (both recent anonymous gifts).
No matter how the wind howls or the sea lashes, with your support we see clear sailing ahead for our work preserving and promoting New London's maritime heritage. You are our lifeboats. Your support matters!
We are not salespeople but
teachers, historians,
librarians, & maritime aficionados.
Please help with a donation to our
ANNUAL FUND. Your gift truly helps!
Thank you.
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Black film historian
Lonnie Braxton will lead an after-hours film series to celebrate Black History Month at 6:30 p.m. Fridays through February at the
Public Library of New London, 63 Huntington St.
Films begin with 'Fatal Flood' on Feb. 2.
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. We also post community news and conservation / preservation articles.
Above, the view towards Groton on Friday from the Custom House roof.
We thank the Bodenwein Foundation for awarding us $1,500 to create a small exhibition and brochure about the evolution of New London's 1833 US Custom House building. We soon will be using them to raise funds to replace & restore the custom house roof.
Below, new in the MUSEUM SHOP - Rhode Island titles
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New London Harbor Light
reports the latest on NL Harbor 'Pequot' Light and about American lighthouse preservation.
Left, attorney John Casey and NLMS president Ed Cubanski met to discuss our plans for the lighthouse season ahead.
We continue our work to re-establish public access to this beloved local historic landmark
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Race Rock Lighthouse
posts news concerning Race Rock Light
and international lighthouse tourism and preservation efforts.
Facebook Lighthouse Inn, New London, Connecticut, right, to keep up with the Inn's restoration.
Thank you, Chelsea Groton Bank & NLMS trustee Joanne Cain, for your donation to NLMS!
Below, Bank Street from the Custom House roof,
& looking south down the Thames.
~ Happy Groundhog Day - it's this Friday ~
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